{"id":2972,"date":"2012-05-28T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2018-04-26T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:13:44","slug":"a-glass-of-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2972","title":{"rendered":"A Glass of Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Glass of Shadow<\/em><\/a> (2011) Liz Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Liz Williams writes stories that fall into a variety of genres at once: science fiction, fantasy, mystery. I read–and fell in love with–her Detective Inspector Chen series, and so buy her anthologies, hoping that means she’ll then be able to write more Chen stories.<\/p>\n

This volume is an anthology of her short stories, some set in the same worlds, some not. And as with all her anthology collections, some stories I loved, while others were good, but not my thing.<\/p>\n

My problem with her stories is that I generally do not enjoy science fiction, so the more tech there is in a story, the less likely I am to enjoy that story. And these stories from the gamut from fantasy to science fiction to a little bit of everything.<\/p>\n

The other problem, it’s hard for me to recommend her stories, since they’re not always easy reading, and they don’t fit into any single category.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say I don’t enjoy her stories, because of the most part, I do. But I find them hard to recommend, because they’re difficult to classify.<\/p>\n

Of course, for three dollars, it’s most likely worth your time to try this collection to see if you like it.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by New Con Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Glass of Shadow (2011) Liz Williams Liz Williams writes stories that fall into a variety of genres at once: science fiction, fantasy, mystery. I read–and fell in love with–her Detective Inspector Chen series, and so buy her anthologies, hoping that means she’ll then be able to write more Chen stories. This volume is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,2,25,35],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","category-short-story","tag-liz-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-LW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":373,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/373","url_meta":{"origin":2972,"position":0},"title":"The Banquet of the Lords of Night & Other Stories","author":"Michelle","date":"April 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Banquet of the Lords of Night & Other Stories (2004) Liz Williams The Banquet of the Lords of Night & Other Stories is an anthology (obviously) of stories by Liz Williams. 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